[tei-council] Location of <app>s for external apparatus

Fri Jun 15 04:49:01 EDT 2012

On 15/06/12 09:38, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> <back>  "contains any appendixes, etc. following the main part of a text"
> if you use it as a container for standoff notes and apps, you lose its valuable function
> as a place for appendices which are in normal reading order.

I don't think that is true. You still have the ability to have 
other appendices. I dispute your claim that there is a 'normal 
reading order' when constructing a born-digital file that could 
have many forms of output.

> when I typeset a TEI document, I expect to render all of the<back>  using just
> the same techniques as when I render<front>  or<body>. I don't expect
> to render standoff notes and apps there where I meet them, I expect to be
> given a clue that they are standoff.

Isn't that what div/@type would do? Classify them in a way so 
your processing could know what to do with them? i.e.  If I had 
<div type="standoff-notes"> or <div type="standoff-apps">?

That said, <listApp> and then by extension <listNote> would 
provide containers for such things. However, they are 
significantly different from say <listBibl> in that if you ran 
across a <listBibl> somewhere in a <back> you would certainly be 
rendering it there, I suspect.

-James

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Dr James Cummings, InfoDev
Oxford University Computing Services
University of Oxford